Backbacks and Boots
Since my family is coming to visit in 2 weeks, I get the terribly exciting opportunity of planning what items should be packed in their extra suitcases and brought to India solely for my consumption pleasure. Items included so far: Vanity Fair, Holiday Candles from Target, Altoids, Mexican bean mix, and my old Havianas flip flops. Items crucial to my existence, obviously.
The most important one, which occurred to me as an afterthought sitting on the plane to Hong Kong, was a decent traveling backpack. I brought absolutely nothing that could get thrown under bus seats, kicked in the dust, used as a seat in sub-par cleanliness situations, and drooled on by a camel (Rajasthan). Maybe I was just confused by my day-dreaming of Hong Kong city lights.
With all the years of retired backpacks idly sitting in my closet, it seems ridiculous that I could have forgotten such a simple thing. Cheap Kmart kiddie backpacks, a couple JanSport old favorites from middle school covered in 13 year old graffiti, the ubiquitous black Northface from senior year, are currently all piled on shelves, chronicling my evolution through backpack couture – none of these made it into my suitcases upon departure.
By the way, I’m wearing cowboy boots at work today. The real thing too – dung squashing cattle roping stompers in the office. I get a few giggles, but I think my coworkers totally dig them…
And another disclaimer about the most recent media coverage.
From Nate Linkon (famed “citizen of the world” according to blogspot)
This presentation makes us sound whiny and miserable here in Bangalore. Let me assure you that this is not the case. The pictures often look very depressing and make us seem very isolated when in reality that is completly false. The voiceovers are done by Juan and Laura, and although they are truthful, they are juxtaposed to pictures that bring the quotes out of context. Don't worry, we're not living in the concentration camp that this video depicts.
Its true! I really don’t miss Blockbuster like I claimed in the slideshow, but was under the gun to name something. And all I could think of was the garish blue and yellow Blockbuster sign found around the corner from every American supermarket. So there you go…
The most important one, which occurred to me as an afterthought sitting on the plane to Hong Kong, was a decent traveling backpack. I brought absolutely nothing that could get thrown under bus seats, kicked in the dust, used as a seat in sub-par cleanliness situations, and drooled on by a camel (Rajasthan). Maybe I was just confused by my day-dreaming of Hong Kong city lights.
With all the years of retired backpacks idly sitting in my closet, it seems ridiculous that I could have forgotten such a simple thing. Cheap Kmart kiddie backpacks, a couple JanSport old favorites from middle school covered in 13 year old graffiti, the ubiquitous black Northface from senior year, are currently all piled on shelves, chronicling my evolution through backpack couture – none of these made it into my suitcases upon departure.
By the way, I’m wearing cowboy boots at work today. The real thing too – dung squashing cattle roping stompers in the office. I get a few giggles, but I think my coworkers totally dig them…
And another disclaimer about the most recent media coverage.
From Nate Linkon (famed “citizen of the world” according to blogspot)
This presentation makes us sound whiny and miserable here in Bangalore. Let me assure you that this is not the case. The pictures often look very depressing and make us seem very isolated when in reality that is completly false. The voiceovers are done by Juan and Laura, and although they are truthful, they are juxtaposed to pictures that bring the quotes out of context. Don't worry, we're not living in the concentration camp that this video depicts.
Its true! I really don’t miss Blockbuster like I claimed in the slideshow, but was under the gun to name something. And all I could think of was the garish blue and yellow Blockbuster sign found around the corner from every American supermarket. So there you go…
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